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Title: Home Remedies?
Post by: Artyem on June 20, 2013, 10:39:47 am
I used to get sick a fucking lot up until January when I got my tonsils removed after an agonizing two years of constant strep throat and tonsillitis.  Not only that, but I was sick so often that I got hit with the stomach flu frequently while I was already down with the feeling of glass shards in my throat.

Fortunately, it's better and I haven't really been 'sick' since my surgery, but I still get migraines occasionally.

Anyway, I've basically collected some remedies for dealing with random shit and I want you share yours.

Headaches / Migraines:

Pretty much the usual, darken your room, take some aspirin or acetaminophen and stop monitor tanning for like 30 minutes.

Fucking drink water.

Upset stomach:

Peppermint tea, chamomile helps.  Not much else I can say.

Sore throat:

Hot fucking tea, lots of water, no dairy products, popsicles, hard candy, honey, gargle with salt water, get some antibiotics if it's Strep throat.

I'll think up some more, most are basic but I was surprised at how few people even knew these.


If you have bad back pain go out and find some rice in those huge bags (usually like 10 - 20 kg or 20 - 40 pounds)  and fill a sock up with the rice until it's pretty thick.  Tie off the open end and microwave that bitch for 2 - 3 minutes.  Wrap it in a towel and bam, you've got an excellent heat pack.

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Title: Re: Home Remedies?
Post by: [ptx] on June 20, 2013, 10:47:54 am
Stomachache:
Lie on your left side, curl up, pull your legs close, then prod your stomach clockwise around your navel.
Title: Re: Home Remedies?
Post by: Armpit_Sweat on June 20, 2013, 11:28:33 am
Soar genitalia:
 
Ask your mom to kiss the pain away. 
 
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Title: Re: Home Remedies?
Post by: no_rules_just_play on June 20, 2013, 01:59:41 pm
sleep and eat well

and stomach pain: abdominal massage (check youtube)
Title: Re: Home Remedies?
Post by: Kalam on June 20, 2013, 07:49:11 pm
Eating raw garlic might help. At the very least, it helps in direct contact with bacterial infections. I'm not a microbiologist or a physician, so I have no idea, but it can't hurt anyone except whoever you kiss, right?

When I get a strain of the flu, I generally sleep for a whole (24 hours) day on the first weekend I get and it's generally gone the next week.

A cold lasts seven days with medical treatment, and a week without.

Ultimately, the most important things are preventive. Solid nutrition, exercise, and drinking plenty of water always help. There's a variable that medical textbooks I've read tend to mention even though it may seem like common sense - 'good health' and/or 'physically fit'.
Title: Re: Home Remedies?
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on June 20, 2013, 09:43:29 pm
Your migraines I'm going to guess are due to not getting enough caffeine. 

I never realized how "addicted" to caffeine I was until I finally figured out my occasional migraine was because I hadn't had any caffeine that day (or for a couple days).  I was a couple caffeinated beverages a day type of guy.

Since then I quit caffeine, and have started drinking coffee again, and the same thing, like on the weekend or if I'm out of town fishing or something and don't have caffeine I'll get a terrible migraine (not always, but sometimes).  It's not nearly as bad as it used to be, because I try not to overdo the caffeine on a daily basis.

If you need to take any "headache" medicine ever, I'd highly recommend Excedrin, it's got some caffeine in it, works way better than Acetaminophen or aspirin
Title: Re: Home Remedies?
Post by: Overdriven on June 20, 2013, 09:44:34 pm
Yup I worked that one out as well. If I don't drink coke or a cup of coffee for even one day I get a really bad headache. Pretty bad but I love my coffee too damn much.

Either that or there are a bunch of other things. For example my mum gets them because she's allergic to something in alcohol. She'll literally have one glass of red wine then get a terrible migraine. My sister gets them from strip lights. Whilst she was at uni she had them in her room and got lots of migraines. They worked out it's apparently because they flash on and off very quickly, which causes a lot of people migraines.
Title: Re: Home Remedies?
Post by: Xant on June 20, 2013, 10:32:53 pm
taking an aspirin for headache is a home remedy now?
Title: Re: Home Remedies?
Post by: Artyem on June 20, 2013, 10:49:16 pm
Chronic cluster migraines actually run in my family, as odd as that sounds, and fortunately I haven't had to suffer through the worst of them yet but it certainly isn't caffeine withdrawals.  I get my caffeine fix pretty well every day, and I wish I could stop but god damn coffee is just too good to give up.


Quote from: Xant on June 20, 2013, 10:32:53 pm
taking an aspirin for headache is a home remedy now?

Yep, I've met people who've gone to the doctor over headaches to get prescribed painkillers because they don't know the true power of aspirin, the wonder drug.

EDIT:

Also, I don't usually get headaches but full blown migraines that leave you deprived of any form of physical energy.  Light quickly becomes your worst enemy in those situations too.
Title: Re: Home Remedies?
Post by: Kafein on June 20, 2013, 11:18:50 pm
It's weird, despite my nickname I never got any problem staying during extended length of time without any caffeine (coke, coffee, tea whatever). Then again, I basically don't know what a headache is. Only thing I got (plenty of times though) was sinusites.

In fact I didn't knew people could get physically addicted to caffeine.
Title: Re: Home Remedies?
Post by: Artyem on June 21, 2013, 02:02:44 am
Quote from: Kafein on June 20, 2013, 11:18:50 pm
It's weird, despite my nickname I never got any problem staying during extended length of time without any caffeine (coke, coffee, tea whatever). Then again, I basically don't know what a headache is. Only thing I got (plenty of times though) was sinusites.

In fact I didn't knew people could get physically addicted to caffeine.

Yep, supposedly some people go through detox for it.
Title: Re: Home Remedies?
Post by: KaMiKaZe_JoE on June 21, 2013, 03:28:54 am
Dicks make me feel better.

Dicks!
Title: Re: Home Remedies?
Post by: Jarold on June 21, 2013, 07:15:56 am
Got a home remedy for lag spikes?
Title: Re: Home Remedies?
Post by: Leesin on June 21, 2013, 07:44:17 am
Anything wrong with you?

Man up

best home remedy, you can paypal me later.
Title: Re: Home Remedies?
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on June 21, 2013, 03:47:16 pm
Quote from: Jarold on June 21, 2013, 07:15:56 am
Got a home remedy for lag spikes?

What kind of modem are you using?  I had a DOCSIS 1.0 modem and was told I needed to upgrade to a DOCSIS 3.0 because the 1.0's couldn't handle network packets as well as the newer modems.  I replaced it and still had periods of 10-15 second network drops.  I complained again to my cable company and they said that since I had a "special" rate ($30/month) for my cable internet, I was actually on a lower tier plan than their current lowest tier offering.  I was getting 2mb upload, and 20 mb download.  They said that they believed that since they were throttling back my connection (basically "lagging" me with packets on a higher tier service) that it was most likely the culprit.  I flipped my shit and they upgraded me to 50mbps download, and 5mbps upload, and haven't had any issues since.

So you could possibly be in the boat with either of those issues.
Title: Re: Home Remedies?
Post by: Overdriven on June 21, 2013, 03:49:48 pm
Quote from: CrazyCracka420 on June 21, 2013, 03:47:16 pm
What kind of modem are you using?  I had a DOCSIS 1.0 modem and was told I needed to upgrade to a DOCSIS 3.0 because the 1.0's couldn't handle network packets as well as the newer modems.  I replaced it and still had periods of 10-15 second network drops.  I complained again to my cable company and they said that since I had a "special" rate ($30/month) for my cable internet, I was actually on a lower tier plan than their current lowest tier offering.  I was getting 2mb upload, and 20 mb download.  They said that they believed that since they were throttling back my connection (basically "lagging" me with packets on a higher tier service) that it was most likely the culprit.  I flipped my shit and they upgraded me to 50mbps download, and 5mbps upload, and haven't had any issues since.

So you could possibly be in the boat with either of those issues.

You actually got a valid answer over the phone from an ISP? One in a million.
Title: Re: Home Remedies?
Post by: SixThumbs on June 21, 2013, 04:00:51 pm
Response of cluster headache to psilocybin and LSD. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16801660)
Title: Re: Home Remedies?
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on June 21, 2013, 04:31:17 pm
Quote from: Overdriven on June 21, 2013, 03:49:48 pm
You actually got a valid answer over the phone from an ISP? One in a million.
Not exactly, I'm not confident the DOCSIS 1 was the problem, I think that was a bad answer.  But yeah I was surprised they told me the truth about my network lag due to being on a lower service than they even offer.  I think the only reason they suggested upgrading my service was because it's now $45 a month versus $30 :P  But for working internet, that's an acceptable price for me, when most people are paying $60 for the same service.

And it is pretty rare to get valid info from an ISP's tech support.  I've had so many issues with different companies over the years, and being a tech saavy person myself (network/system administrator) I'm able to tell them when they are wrong or doing something that is screwing me over, but they typically don't do anything to fix it.  In the early 2000's our network would lag in the evenings (due to people using the internet all at one time in the neighborhood) and over a period of a couple months I took screenshots of trace routes and ping tests and literally called them once or twice a week to bitch about it (explaining I was not getting the throughput I was paying for, and it was unacceptable and they would either refund my money or provide the service I was paying for).  After about 2 months of calling every week (sometimes more) they finally admitted that they needed to boost the bandwidth to our network hub. 
Title: Re: Home Remedies?
Post by: Overdriven on June 21, 2013, 05:41:37 pm
Yeah we had a guy come over to fix our internet who didn't even know what a ping test was, packet loss ect so it was impossible to try and describe the problem to him. He ended up just doing the default thing that apparently they do to everyone by putting something on the modem. Naturally it helped none at all.

Turned out the issue in our area was that the company had signed up way to many subscribers to a few lines. It meant they simply got saturated big time anywhere between 3pm and 11pm. At points you couldn't even get on a web page, let alone game and it was supposed to be high speed internet.
Title: Re: Home Remedies?
Post by: Jarold on June 22, 2013, 03:46:39 am
Quote from: CrazyCracka420 on June 21, 2013, 03:47:16 pm
What kind of modem are you using?  I had a DOCSIS 1.0 modem and was told I needed to upgrade to a DOCSIS 3.0 because the 1.0's couldn't handle network packets as well as the newer modems.  I replaced it and still had periods of 10-15 second network drops.  I complained again to my cable company and they said that since I had a "special" rate ($30/month) for my cable internet, I was actually on a lower tier plan than their current lowest tier offering.  I was getting 2mb upload, and 20 mb download.  They said that they believed that since they were throttling back my connection (basically "lagging" me with packets on a higher tier service) that it was most likely the culprit.  I flipped my shit and they upgraded me to 50mbps download, and 5mbps upload, and haven't had any issues since.

So you could possibly be in the boat with either of those issues.

I don't think it is that, but I will keep it in mind. I'm just playing and it randomly lags getting me killed in a very annoying manner. If I just had a constant ping of like 120 I would be happy! But no it gives me 30 ping then shoots to like 300 just for a few vital seconds.

Strangely it works very well from the times of 1am-6am, I think i'll just change my service within a week. I don't have any real options though, living in rural Virginia and all.